Aetna's departure from California

Scott and Danielle Nelson and their two children, Dane Nelson, 3, and Taylor Nelson, 7, play at an Aliso Viejo park in July. The couple pay $650 a month for an Aetna healthcare policy. Aetna is leaving the state at year's end and Danielle was recently diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

Scott and Danielle Nelson and their two children, Dane Nelson, 3, and Taylor Nelson, 7, play at an Aliso Viejo park in July. The couple pay $650 a month for an Aetna healthcare policy. Aetna is leaving the state at year's end and Danielle was recently diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

Scott and Danielle Nelson and their two children, Dane Nelson, 3, and Taylor Nelson, 7, play at an Aliso Viejo park in July. The couple pay $650 a month for an Aetna healthcare policy. Aetna is leaving the state at year's end and Danielle was recently diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.